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Book On One Monday 5 January 2015

This week’s book is H is for Hawk, a memoir by Helen Macdonald. This memoir won the prestigious Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction in 2014 - the first memoir to ever do so.

Devastated by the sudden death of her father, Helen has acquired a young goshawk called Mabel, whom she intends to train. Having brought the hawk to her Cambridge home, Helen, who has been obsessed with falconry since childhood, is now faced with the challenge of training the bird.